As the tablet space grows increasingly crowded, it’s high time somebody switched up the formula and offered some hardware we can really get excited about.Cue the entrance of the Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime, the first quad-core tablet on the market and the first running Android 4.0, aka Ice Crea ...
The most distinguishing feature of the PlayStation Vita, Sony’s new portable game machine, may go unnoticed at first glance.The thing Sony is banking on occupies a tiny little area on the face of the unit, roughly a square centimeter in size.Two analog sticks means hardcore gamers don’t have to c ...
If you’re an Rdio fan with an Android phone, you’ve been on the losing end of things for quite some time — stuck with a clunky mobile app and waiting around for a long-promised refresh. Meanwhile, Rdio’s players for iPhone and iPad are slick and pretty, and have been for many months.Well good n ...
When it’s time to shop for a new laptop, everybody wants an ultrabook. But few remain quite so excited when they see the often-limited performance and inflated price tags. Samsung’s solution: Jam a standard, 14-inch laptop into what is essentially an ultrabook case, giving you (in theory) the bes ...
Sure, your smartphone has a camera. It takes awesome 8-megapixel photos that you can upload to Instagram or Facebook where they're tagged, liked, and commented upon. But everybody's phone does that stuff. To truly stand out and claim your own hill on the island of photo-nerd coolness, you need one ...
Any lasting relatihip isn’t reliant on looks alone. Sure, it starts with lust. But we get older, slower. We grow love handles and extra chins. But we stay together because, ultimately, the connection is based on something deeper than the superficial. It’s a dramatic conceit to apply to a smartpho ...
Like bacon-laced ice cream or deep-fried turducken, the ultra high performance SUV is a curious amalgam of ingredients governed by an inscrutable raison d’être. How does this mutant automotive strain survive the vagaries of the market, and what draws drivers to this genre like a spacecraft to a b ...
As an illustrator who works in both paper and digital media, I’ve been looking forward to getting my hands on the Wacom Inkling ever since it was first announced. A physical pen that tracks your drawings and digitizes them on the fly? Can you say “dream tool?”The Inkling is a two-part gadget, a ...
If you call yourself an auto enthusiast, you’ve got to have some love for Mazda. I don’t care if you take factory delivery of a new M3 every four years or have a Mustang logo tattooed on your bicep — when it comes to championing technology that nobody else will, the fifth-largest Japanese automa ...
Generally, the better a jacket is at keeping the wet out, the better it is at keeping the wet in. While the wind whips and the rain pelts, you stay dry … until your body temperature climbs and that muggy, wrapped-in-plastic feeling sets in. Waterproof-yet-breathable fabric technologies are abundan ...
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